The Caligula appears to have bronze disease. It's hard to judge from a photo, but the bluish green patina looks powdery and the coin is very...
Thanks for your ongoing efforts! I wonder when the names we're giving to the vessel (oinochoe, urnula, hydreion, etc) were conceived--...
Getting a little closer? From a mid-1st century fresco at Villa San Marco in Stabiae: [IMG] [IMG] Ritual of Isis, wall fresco Priests and...
Good ol' Wizard Coin Supply... where I get all of my coin supplies. I just got another bottle.
Thanks so much for that lead, @Macromius! I'm reading about the funeral rites of Osiris and subsequent rituals, which are reportedly documented...
I like that theory!! Perhaps this type of vessel was used to water the corn mummy!
Yeah... the joys of aging. I hate it when I (temporarily) lose words :(
I was hoping you'd chime in, Ken! Let me know if you come across it.
Unsurprisingly, I suppose, there are little differences between the vessels, particular from emperor to emperor. However, that give me hope...
Nice! At CICF 2014 I picked up an example with a fantastic griffin but pitiful reverse. Per Bill Kalmbach (Nilus; from whom I bought the coin),...
:joyful::joyful: That's an Onion classic :D "One night someone made a joke about just taking all these ideas, lumping them together, and saying...
Here's a close-up of the fabric pattern. I had fun wearing a different shirt made from that fabric at CICF 2014 :D [IMG]
Despite the description for one of the Dattari coins, I'm skeptical that those protrusions represent uraei. The Augustus example Ed found shows...
Good job parading the shirt by the NGC folks. LOL!
:D I didn't compose museum inquiries today. My ISP went down very early this morning (widespread-- all 4 islands) and it just came back up....
Excellent find!! Thanks, Ed! Great details of the structure of the vessel-- it looks rather a musical instrument @TypeCoin971793 would play :D...
Urethane hammer and anvil.
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